Welcome to another eWrestlingNews Question of the Day!
After nearly two years missing in action, Scorpio Sky made his return to All Elite Wrestling on AEW Collision 100 by answering Max Caster’s open challenge of Who Can Survive the Best Wrestler Alive?—defeating Caster in around a minute. He was accompanied by Top Flight and Christopher Daniels, who appears to be his manager now going forward since his retirement.
My question for you today is “What does the future hold for Scorpio Sky? Do you think he has it in him for a major run, or is this already going to be his peak?”
Remember to answer with your response in the comments below.
As far as my answer…
I hate to be that guy, but my realistic answer is that I don’t think we’re going to see Scorpio Sky win any other championships in AEW before he retires. That’s making quite the assumption, as I have no idea how much longer he plans on wrestling, but I think the track record speaks for itself.
Sky was gone for 2 years. Assuredly, that wasn’t because of injuries, because he wrestled 11 matches in other promotions since September 2024. Clearly, if Tony Khan wanted him back on television in AEW, he could have had that happen any time over the past year, but chose not to or they had some kind of contract dispute that didn’t get settled until recently.
But even before then, Sky was part of the original AEW, which is in many ways wildly different than what the company is now, and he still had a ceiling of tag team and midcard champion. He was a bigger fish in a smaller pond then, as a prominent name on the indie circuit who made perfect sense as one of the first tag team champions and a guy to build as a midcard act with potential to grow. He just didn’t.
As more WWE talent became available and people left that company or others like New Japan to sign with AEW, Sky was pushed further and further down the ladder, to the point that he was just another cog in the wheel after he dropped the TNT title to Wardlow. His appearances, few and far between, didn’t paint him as a guy that was prioritized, and he was eventually relegated to Ring of Honor for a bit until disappearing.
Sky is someone who I think fits very well into that “what if” category, where if he were a little younger, or if NXT had come around to be the product it eventually became (not the competition show) a little earlier, or if a few other things had happened differently, he could be a more prominent part of this company or someone who has “been around forever” in WWE, but I still think it’s a lot to ask the fantasy gods for him to have won a world title in either promotion. And now that that time has passed, I don’t see it magically happening with a massive push in 2025, either. I think a big pop and a nice welcome here will lead to some momentum, and if he can capitalize on that steam, then that’s great, but I anticipate that in a short while, we’ll be seeing him as part of the regular rotation of guys fed to people like Konosuke Takeshita, Kazuchika Okada, Kyle Fletcher, and the other bigger stars, before eventually even moving back to ROH to be one of the “good hands” there.
Hopefully, I’m wrong about that for the better of his career, and he can turn this into something even more awesome.
What do you think? Drop your thoughts below!
